by Frances Phillips | Mar 7, 2014
Writer Gary Soto collaborated with Marsh Youth Theater to create In and Out of Shadows, a new play about United States teenagers with undocumented immigration status. Dramatic material for the project was collected by Marsh Youth Theater teens trained in oral history...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 28, 2014
A collaboration between Lisa Gray-Garcia, co-founder of Poor Magazine, and Community Defense Inc., “Poverty Heroes” drew together homeless and very poor participants with writers who led creative workshops in homeless shelters, group homes, and welfare...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 19, 2014
Writer Cherylene Lee collaborated with the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) to create a multimedia work and a completed manuscript based on excerpts from Lee’s memoir-in-progress, Just Like Really. Lee’s story uncovers an unusual view of the emotional...
by Frances Phillips | Jan 27, 2014
Spoken word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph; the young poets Eli Marienthal, Biko Eisen-Martin, and Chinaka Hodge; composer John Santos; and Youth Speaks collaborated to create Scourge, a hip hop theater piece critically examining the history of Haiti. Also collaborating...
by Frances Phillips | Nov 29, 2013
Creative nonfiction authors Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson (a.k.a. The Kitchen Sisters) collaborated with a creative team from the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, including its conductor Marin Alsop, to create a multimedia symphonic production of The Hidden...
